“On The Map” Returns for a One Night Screening at AMC Westminster

Chabad of NW Metro Denver is pleased to announce its third annual summer movie presentation “On The Map“on Thursday, August 24th at 6:45 pm at the AMC Westminster Promenade 24. This is a private, one night screening. The theater is conveniently located on the NE corner of the Church Ranch Exit off the Boulder Turnpike.

Rabbi Benjy Brackman, Chabad’s executive director is thrilled about the choice of movie, “this family friendly movie packs a great story of Israeli pride and an underdog that won the Soviets” says Brackman.

Before the screening, participants will be treated to a taste of Israeli cuisine with a complimentary falafel. One The Map was previously shown at the 2017 Boulder Jewish Film Festival

About the film:

ON THE MAP tells the against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 1977 European Championship, which took place at a time when the Middle East was still reeling from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1972 Olympic massacre at Munich, and the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel Aviv. Through the of lens of sports, ON THE MAP presents a much broader story of how one team captured the heart of a nation amidst domestic turmoil and the global machinations of the Cold War.

The film recounts how an underdog Israeli basketball team prevailed over a series of European basketball powers, including CSKA Moscow (known in the West as “Red Army”), a team that repeatedly refused to compete against Israeli competitors. Moments after this highly charged and historic win, Israeli-American basketball hero Tal Brody became an indelible part of a young country’s history when he famously said, “Israel is ON THE MAP, not just in sport, but in everything.”

Told through the eyes of six American basketball players who joined Maccabi and helped the club defeat top teams from Spain, Italy and the Soviet Union, the film features interviews with basketball icon Bill Walton (who had a unique personal connection to Brody) and former NBA Commissioner David Stern. ON THE MAP combines the pulse-pounding action of a high-stakes thriller with an incendiary political backdrop to deliver a film that will mesmerize basketball fans and captures the spirit of a nation triumphant against all odds.

ON THE MAP also features incisive interviews with, among others, Michael Oren, Israel’s former Ambassador to the United States, and Natan Sharansky, a notable Israeli politician who spent years imprisoned in Soviet jails.

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